Tag: Amazon

As Big Tech’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) season approaches, Amazon shareholders are pushing for changes to protect human rights. Here are the shareholder proposals we support.

As we enter the 2023 AGM season, we look at what shareholder proposals for Big Tech companies Amazon, Alphabet, and Meta reveal about the companies’ capacity to mitigate risk and ensure accountability for emerging tech like AI.

Access Now, Amnesty International USA, and Fight for the Future called on four geolocation data brokers to ensure their practices are not harming the privacy and reproductive rights of people seeking abortions.

This year’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) season for the tech sector has come and gone, but the results for Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon tell a surprisingly hopeful story for digital rights advocates.

We urge Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon shareholders to support greater accountability for the companies’ human rights impacts.

Access Now and a coalition of rights organizations urge Amazon Web Services to end its HART database contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Amazon Ring video doorbells are amplifying discrimination, one sensor at a time. We unpack how Ring-police partnerships threaten human rights and what you can do to combat surveillance.

音声認識技術はしばしば人権を侵害するが、この技術がどんどん広がってきている。最近では、Spotifyが性別や感情の状態などを検知できるとする音声認識技術を開発していることを私たちは指摘した。

Voice recognition technology often violates human rights, and it’s popping up more and more. Recently we’ve called out Spotify for their dangerous voice recognition tech, and a lot more companies are up to the same shady tactics.